Herbal Immersion
WE Ekend
Connect with plants as teachers, allies, and healers.
Join herbalist Savayda Jarone for a transformative weekend of hands-on medicine making, nature connection, and plant-spirit exploration. Whether you’re just beginning your herbal journey or you’ve been studying for years, this retreat will offer fresh insight, and deepen your practice through the lens of Plant Spirit Medicine.
June 27 – Sunday June 29, 2025
Blue Forest Shores Head of Jeddore, Nova Scotia
ABOUT THE RETREAT
Immerse yourself in the lush early summer landscape of Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore, surrounded by more than 100 wild and cultivated medicinal plants—including seaweeds.
This weekend is more than a course—it’s a shift in perception. You’ll fine-tune your herbal skills, experience the joy of making your own medicines, and deepen your relationship with the living world through plant-spirit medicine.
Expect hands-on learning, sensory connection, and spacious time in the forest and garden.
With over 100 medicinal plants on the property, this retreat offers a deeply immersive and hands-on learning experience in a peaceful natural setting.
Hands-On Herbal Learning
Plant-Spirit Medicine
• Cultivate a heart-centered connection to the herbs you work with
• Experience guided plant attunements and sensory practices
Location: Blue Forest Shores
An oceanside retreat centre with 100 acres of forest, herb gardens, and a Finnish Sauna.
Highlights
Escape to Nature
Step away from your daily routine and reconnect with yourself and the plants in a peaceful forested coastal sanctuary.
Connect with the Living World
Experience nature in a new way by building respectful, reciprocal relationships with the plants and elements around you.
Make Your Own Medicine
Learn practical skills to craft remedies with intention, care, and confidence—and take home a collection of herbal preparations you made yourself.
Relaxation & Integration
• Explore & socialize with like-minded nature enthusiasts
• Quiet reflection & moments of solitude
• Relax and rejuvenate in our authentic Finnish sauna with guided thermal cycles.
What the We Ekend Includes
Friday June 27 – Sunday June 29, 2025
Blue Forest Shores, 100 English Point Road, Head of Jeddore, NS
ACTIVITIES & CLASSES
• Wild and cultivated herbs, seaweeds, lichens, mushrooms – identification,harvest, uses
• Medicine making - tinctures, glycerites, flower essences, infused oils, salves,herbal salts
• Herbal facial & skin treatments
• Sauna
• Herbal teas, fresh from the garden
• Herbal Happy Hour mocktails
• Herbal remedies to take home
• Booklet of notes and recipes
MEALS
Nourish yourself with healthy meals, made with fresh, local ingredients—some direct from the garden!
Breakfasts - ingredients will be provided to prepare your own
Lunches - ingredients will be provided to prepare your own
Dinners - prepared and served
Garden-fresh herbal teas on demand, and mocktails at happy hour.
Accommodation Options
Fall asleep under a canopy of trees lulled by the sounds of nature.
• Bring your own camping gear
• Rent camping gear from Blue Forest (please inquire)
• Enjoy glamping in the Bell Tent (sleeps 2, please inquire)
Logistics
• Outhouses & private outdoor forest shower
• Bentwood studio community space with electricity & wifi
• Community kitchen access for meal preparation
Schedule
Subject to minor changes.
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Despite the fullness of our itinerary, there's plenty of time for relaxation and mingling with like-minded individuals. Our Herbal Happy Hour is a daily highlight
I look forward to welcoming you to my herbal oasis on the Eastern Shore!
Pricing
$325
+HST
Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be given up to 2 weeks before the retreat,minus a $50 non-refundable registration fee.
Your Host & Teacher
Savayda Jarone is pleased to welcome you to her home herb garden. She has been practicing and teaching herbal medicine in Nova Scotia since 2001. She brings a unique personal style to herbal education by including Plant Spirit Medicine, which she first studied with Eliot Cowan at his Blue Deer Centre over 15 years ago. She weaves people and plants together through storytelling, a passion for self-reliance, and deep expertise born of her 30 years devoted to the plant path.